Meat-tenderer.



No. 866,106. PATENTED sBPT. 17, 1907.

4 W. H. BAKER.l

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UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.N

WILLIAM II.Y BAKER, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF CNE-HALF TO.IOSEPII P. FRISBIE, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

ME AT-TE N DE RER.

ASpecnlficaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 17, 1907.

Application iiled March 21, 1907. Serial No. 363,573.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM I-I. BAKER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bridgeport,l county of Fairlield, State of Connecticutuhaveinvented a new and useful'Meat-Tenderer, of which the following is aspecification. p i

This invention has ier its object to provide a meat tenderer which shallbe strong, durable and equal in elicieucy to any oi the same class newupon the market and which shall be so simple and inexpensive to produceas to permit of its being retailed for ten cents with a fair profit bothto the manufacturer and dealer.

With this end in view I have devised a meat ten derer consisting only ofcutter strips, two end plates l5 and a wire handle.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, Figurel is an elevation of my novel tenderer; Fig. 2 an end view; Fig. 3 asection on the line 3 3 in Fig. l; Fig. 4 an elevation of one'of the enddisks detached; and Fig.` 5 is an elevation of one of the cutter plates,detached. Fig. 6 represents a detail section on line 6 6 oi Fig. Z.

l0 denotes the cutter head and Il the handle. The

cutter head consists simply of a plurality of cutter 25 strips,indicated by l2, and two end plates, indicated by I3. Each cutter stripcomprises a series of cutting teeth, indicated by 14, and an attachinglug l5 at each end of the strip. The end plates are provided withcentral holes, indicated by IG, and with radial slots, indicated by 17,which receive the attaching lugs. In assembling, the cutter strips areplaced radially between the end plates. The attaching lugs are madeslightly longer than the thickness of the end plates and engage theradial slots closely, the ends of the cutter strips abutting against theend plates. The ends of the attaching lugs are then headed down (seeFig. 6) locking the cutter strips to the end plates and forming astrongand rigid cutter head which will stand the strain of use for practicallyan unlimited length of time.

The handle consists of a piece of relatively heavy wire bent at itsmid-length to form arms 18 which are shown as converging, although thisis immaterial. Contiguous to the handle portion, the arms are bentoutward to form a yoke 19 which receives and half 45 incloses the cutterhead. The ends ofthe arms are in- Wardly turned forming hubs 20 whichare sprung into the holes I6 in the end plates, the yoke preventinglateralmovement of the cutter head but without close i,

engagement therewith, so that the cutter head is left free to rotate onthe hubs.

`having a central hole and a plurality of radial slots to receive theattaching lugs, said lugs being headed down to lock the cutter stripsand end plates together, and a handle engaging the holes in the endplates.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in presence 0f G0 twowitnesses.

W'ILLIAM Il. BAKER.

Witnesses A. M. Woos'rnn, S. W. ATrIEnToN.

